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    API for changing custom query

    Please add API function that can be called by e.g. an IronPython script to custom query and reload again
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Support set the rendertype for customrendertype in ironpython

    I'd like to use IronPython to change the axis render types such as ChemDraw and BIOVIADraw maybe seem as the script as below: vc.XAxis.ScaleLabels.SetLevelSettings(renderColumn, ValueRendererTypeIdentifiers.ChemDrawRenderer)
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Alias Columns in Information Designer Using Custom SQL

    I've noticed that on occasions where I'm required to use custom SQL in my information links that I'm unable to alias the column names. I'm all for renaming columns within a DXP, but several of my users share information links. This can become cumb...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Web Player - Scheduler to restart Node Manager services

    As per current way the Web Player works, images are cached in analyses and not refreshed. The only way to get an updated image would be to restart the service. The scheduler would then restart the Web Player service in question in order to get upd...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Range filter slider with Non-Linear Step Size

    If data is not linearly distributed, it would be very useful to be able to select a slider that enables one to move across the entire range of data (e.g. if there is a higher density of data on the order of 1e2 units and a lower density at 1e10 un...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire 2 Future Consideration

    Support for Azure Information Protection (AIP)

    Azure Information Protection is being adopted by Azure customers as an add-on layer of authorization at the document level. Applications reading protected documents (eg MS Excel worksheets) need to be AIP-aware. Current behavior from Spotfire: Spo...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Export Conversations

    I'm designing a dashboard and the team using it will be making a lot of notes with the Conversation tool. The team hasn't asked for this yet, but it would be great if the conversations from dashboards could be exported into something along the lin...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Export 5 Future Consideration

    Restrict Data Export for Authors and Analysts on special Analysis files / Visualizations

    We have some confidential data which we'd like to protect and users not allow to export. This is possible for users with Consumer role. Here the admin easily de-flags "Allow table data export in Spotfire web clients" under Appearance before publis...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 2 Future Consideration

    Spotfire AI should be able to create a summary of an analysis

    It would be useful to be able to get a summary of an analysis through AI. This is useful when trying to understand how an analysis works, and what it contains. This should include all data sources, data tables, joins, unions and transformations an...
    7 months ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration
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